Taylor Swift made quite a splash with her new album The Tortured Poets Department, and its chart domination continues months later. This record scored its tenth consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, which is quite a historic feat for Swift.
With 115,000 equivalent album units earned during its latest week on the chart, Tortured Poets easily returned to No. 1. The lack of competition played a part in its continued chart domination, and Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us is the only new album to come even close to de-crowning it this week, with 89,000 equivalent album units earned.
Tortured Poets follows in the footsteps of 1989 and Fearless as Swift’s third album to spend at least ten weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart. She’s the first artist this century to achieve this feat and only the fifth to ever do so, joining Whitney Houston, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Kingston Trio.
The Tortured Poets Department originally came out on April 19, along with the second volume of songs known as The Anthology. Swift went on to release several variants featuring limited-edition bonus tracks in the weeks to come, which contributed to the album’s continued chart domination.
